Northwest flight attendants reject contract
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Northwest Airlines Flight Attendants Tuesday rejected a new contract that would have provided the carrier with $195 million in annual work rule, benefit and salary concessions.
Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/bargaining/page/37/)
Northwest Airlines Flight Attendants Tuesday rejected a new contract that would have provided the carrier with $195 million in annual work rule, benefit and salary concessions.
Union negotiators representing ground workers at Northwest Airlines are recommending a tentative contract agreement reached early Friday ? not “because the terms are favorable, but because the alternative is worse.”
A bankruptcy judge gave unions a nearly unprecedented victory Thursday by preventing Mesaba Airlines from nullifying the labor contracts of its three largest unions. But his ruling doesn’t alter the core truth, unions say: Labor and management must negotiate new contracts or the airline doesn’t survive.
Members of United Steelworkers Local 9349 on strike at Guardian Angels nursing home will hold a candlelight vigil at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 18, at Bennett Park, 3rd Ave. and 16th St. S., Hibbing.
SEIU Local 284 has reached a tentative agreement with the Anoka-Hennepin school district for a new contract for nearly 200 custodial, maintenance and grounds workers.
Some 440 union leaders representing 210 metalworker unions in Brazil unanimously passed a resolution condemning the “anti-dialogue and anti-union attitude” of Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau at its Canadian and U.S. operations, including its plant in St. Paul.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
Local Lodge 1833 members will conduct an informational picket and a
Strength and Unity Rally on Monday, May 15, at Northwest Airlines
headquarters.
Bankruptcy judge Gregory Kishel is giving Mesaba Airlines and its unions at least one more week to reach a contract settlement.
With negotiations apparently going nowhere, the future of more than 5,600 ground workers at Northwest Airlines could be in the hands of bankruptcy judge Allan Gropper on Monday.
Family members of residents are joining striking workers on the picketline as the walkout continues at Guardian Angels nursing home.